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Six Standout Artists From the Jersey City Art and Studio Tour 2019
Our critic discovers art by Karen Leo, Carly Silverman, Eric Magnuson, Hadieh Afshani, Jinkee Choi, and Loura van der Meule.
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Fred Armisen's Comedic Jab at the Elitist Jargon of the Art World
In "Fred Armisen Art Aficionado" on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers, the comedian presents himself as an art connoisseur with an "art historian's knowledge about every painting that has ever been painted."
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The Legacy of Artists at LA’s Otis College, Which Turns 100 This Year
In its early years, Otis’s success rested on the intersectionality of its students who also came from a diversity of creative fields.
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The Desire to “Undo” Giving Birth
Videos of a birthing in reverse in Candice Breitz's Labour document the process of mothers undoing the moment they gave birth to men who would become tyrants and dictators.
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This Artist's Deli, Where Everything Is Made of Felt and Too Adorable to Resist
Lucy Sparrow is selling 30,000 hand-crafted pieces in the world's cutest deli, fully stocked with felt produce.
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Required Reading
This week, the northernmost hotel in the world, food culture may be killing us, college classism, a Gucci runway protest, a defense of fiction, and more.
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Beer with a Painter: Richard Baker
“No matter what I tried, what fit best was work that involved my love of something small-scale and intimate.”
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Kara Walker’s Monument to Monstrousness
Can the enduring presence of such monuments among us still have the power to reinforce deep-rooted prejudices, by the very fact that they have simply not gone away?
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Entering the Mischievous Portals of Monumental Paintings
Matt Kleberg's paintings are nonetheless accessible, affording the viewer opportunities to "trespass."
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Abstraction’s Exhaustion and Renewal
Bernard Piffaretti is an artist who recognizes painting as an act of inquiry and skepticism.
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Looking at the Roots of the Bauhaus
Bauhaus Beginnings succeeds in reanimating the dialogue that began in the school’s classrooms and hallways, and in following it, as it spilled out into the streets of a country.
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Sarah Sze’s Gleaming, Ephemeral Universe
Sze’s dynamic sculptures aim to capture relationships and their gaps, the solidity of objects and their discarding.